Genealogy

1. How to find your family story

2.  Immigration Story
 Family’s Role in History
 War Hero
 Famous Ancestor
 Royalty or Celebrity
Cousin
 Lineage Society
 Mayflower
 Sons/Daughters of the
American Revolution

3.  Start with yourself, your
parents, your
grandparents
 Full Name
 Birth Date & Birth Place
 Marriage Date &
Marriage Place
 Death Date & Death
Place

4.  What if there is an
adoption?
 What if I don’t know who
my ______ is?
 What if one of my
parents is estranged from
his/her family?
 What if my parent is not
helpful?

5.  Ask about the story of your
family
 Interview family members
 Gather pictures
 Identify family heirlooms &
artifacts
 Does someone have a
scrapbook or newspaper
clippings?
 Pictures
 Nina's Dolls

6.  Start with someone who
was alive in 1940
 If you have some idea of
where they lived and
about how old they
might have been, the
census is great place to
start.
 Census records are easily
located for FREE!!
On pony, my grandfather, Richard,
holding his little brother, Paul.
His sister Rebecca & brother Stanley
are standing.

7. Names
Relationships
Ages
Birth Place

8. Caution: Look closely! Something isn’t right here.
There are 2 Heads of the Household
Are John & Fannie the parents of Thomas R.?
What does Wd mean?

10. He was hit by a car and
died. I knew this from my
grandfather who was only
8 when his father died.
But I wanted to know
more, and I found this
story in the Google News
Archive (free!). July 24,
1923 – Lewiston Daily Sun

11.  Once you have some names and dates:
 Maps – Where Did They Live? Where Did They Travel?
 World War I Draft Registrations
 Newspapers – Google, Newspapers.com,
GenealogyBank
 Immigration Records – Pictures of Ships
 City Directories
 Local Town Histories – Google Books, OpenLibrary
 Further Back
 Civil War Pension Files - $$
 Revolutionary War Pension Files – Fold3
 Compiled Genealogies – Genealogy Gophers, Archive

14. Civil War - First Battle of Bull Run
Holy History Jackpot
Student Finds:
• Great-grandparent naturalization
records
• Picture of Ship Great-
grandparents came on
• Picture of building where Great-
grandparents ran a bowling alley
• Great-grandpa was a chauffeur in
NYC
• Great-grandpa was a sheriff in
Limington & had a daughter
injured in a circus tent accident
Moving To Maine - Map
Certain Lewd Women - Divorce

15.  Our Librarians, Mrs. Denecker
& Mrs. Chavonelle are building
a libguide that I will link tomy
wikispaces page.
 I will post this presentation on
the page for you to use in the
future.
 Would you be interested in an
informal, come-when-you-can
genealogy club? Let me know if
this interests you.